The marketing team is working on the next issue of the Moorhead Magazine, which will feature the theme of service, missions and ministry representing alumni and students from all majors. Below are examples of the kinds of stories we’re looking for. Please share any and all ideas you think might broadly fit into this theme. Read the rest of this entry →

The marketing team is working on the next issue of the Moorhead Magazine, which will feature the theme of innovation and entrepreneurship. It can include alumni and students from all majors. We are looking for story ideas for the following:

Alumni who quit the work grind to start their own companies

Alumni start ups

Psychological profile of an entrepreneur

Failures – alumni who’ve failed (many times) and gone on to success

Grit and heart

Student entrepreneurs and/or alumni who started their businesses while in college

The marketing team is working on the next issue of the Moorhead Magazine, which will feature the theme of innovation and entrepreneurship. We are looking for story ideas featuring student entrepreneurs and/or alumni who started their businesses while in college. If you have a story to share, please email email kristi.monson@mnstate.edu.

We are working on the next issue of the Moorhead Magazine, and we want to feature a broad theme of people working in the health and medical sciences field. BUT, we’re not simply looking for doctors! Here are some ideas to broaden your thinking of alumni you think would be good to feature in the magazine:

The MSUM Marketing team earned two awards at the annual ADDY Awards program Feb. 26. The awards program honors excellence in advertising and cultivates the highest creative standards. The team received silver awards in the category of Collateral Material: Magazine Design for the Moorhead Magazine Fall 2015 and in the category Still Photography: Digitally Enhanced, Single for the Bakken Imports Photo done for Moorhead Magazine Spring 2015.

The magazine team includes Kristi Monson, Derek Lien, Meghan Feir, Katie Faken, David Arntson and Jennifer Donahue. It was former photographer Ande Sailer’s photo that won the award for the Bakken Imports Photo. Dave Wahlberg is executive editor.

Last week, alumni, who are also employees of MSUM, gathered for a photo. Out of MSUM’s 774 employees, 234 of them are also MSUM graduates. These photos will be included in the fall issue of the Moorhead Magazine.

The Spring issue of Moorhead Magazine was delivered to campus mailboxes last week and is also available to view online. This issue features stories from the Bakken—but not the same stories you read elsewhere. Read about how alumni artists are responding to North Dakota’s oil boom, and view the extended art gallery online; journalists report how the Bakken has impacted their work and communities; alumni teachers share their struggles of working with a transient population; and guest writer Karl Leonard, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Earth Science, writes about the Bakken and the MSUM connection.

We value your feedback. Tell us what you think by emailing Kristi at kristi.monson@mnstate.edu. Have an idea for a future issue? Please let us know.

For some, it’s a firefighter; for others, a ballerina. Still others dream of being doctors, lawyers, or basketball stars.

Ken Jaeger dreamed of helping the poor.

Jaeger, a ’83 community health graduate and 2014 distinguished alumnus, was inspired to help the poor at a young age. His mother, who grew up in El Paso, Texas, took Jaeger over the border to Juarez, Mexico, where poverty was rampant.

The next issue of Moorhead Magazine will feature alumni, faculty and/or students working in the Bakken area. Stories will explore how the Bakken boom has impacted their work, their lives, their communities.

This could include people working in geosciences, photography, business, education, social work, education, construction, sociology, journalism, medicine, real estate, film, music, law enforcement, health care, law, etc. The sky’s the limit!

If you have a story suggestion, please share with Kristi Monson, kristi.monson@mnstate.edu. We are finalizing stories soon.

If you can’t wait to receive your print edition of the Minnesota State University Moorhead Magazine, check out our newly launched online magazine website. In our online edition, we have included additional photo galleries and stories that couldn’t make it into the print edition. Please visit often and stay connected!

Austin Maddox, class of 2010 and general manager of Safari Theatre, called to say their movie tickets are lower than what’s published in the “Moorhead Magazine.” Tickets are $2.50 Monday-Thursday evenings and all matinees; Friday-Sunday evening tickets are $3.50. Still the lowest priced movies in town!

The rebranded and redesigned university magazine, formerly named Alumnews, has been distributed to campus mailboxes. Tell us what you think of the new magazine, suggest a story idea for future issues, and share with a friend. Email the editor at magazine@mnstate.edu. Additional copies are available in the Marketing & Communications Office, Weld 11.